Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-01-28
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

Manitowoc citizens are agitating the
water works question.
The Rock county fair will be held at
Janessille September 6 to inclusive.
Counterfeit silver dollars are circulat-
ing in Manitowoc.
Potatoes are selling for twenty-six to
thirty cents per bushel at Amherst.
Rice Lake schools are closed on ac-
count of diphtheria, which Is prevalent
there.
During the past year S250,0O0 was ex-
pended at Hurley ia building enterprises.
Six Cinnamon have joined the Y. Nj.
@. A. at Milwaukee.
S. j. Murphy d Co., are to erect new
planning mill at Green Bay.
The Knights of Labor at Hudson made
every poor widow in the city present of
sack of flour during the holidays.
Up to date 1,197 tramps have been
lodged in one apartment in the Racine
lookup.
Tia recent storm caused an almost en-
tire suspension of trains running into
Portage.
The annual shearing festival of the
'ioCOuoiAI oleep DE@tutr5 Will DC nelQ
next May at Caldwell's prairie.
The La Crosse street railway company
has just purchased a number of new cars.
They are heated with stoves.
The Ashland train on the Lake Shore
road was stalled eight miles north of Mil
waukee for eighteen hours. Farmers fed
the passengers.
A convention of fishermen will be held
"a Enrt ord ha /
draw up proposed amendments to the
fishing laws.
A new portable saw mill has Just been
put up by Seymour parties at Charles
Luepke's, near Tracy, for the manufac-
ture of cedar ties and lumber.
The American Scotchmen of Racine
will celebrate the anniversary of the birth
of Robert Burns, by giving a fine enter
taipment
Of the $4,250.90 already subscribed for
the state work OF the Young Mems
Christian association for the current year,
Eau Claire contributes $3.50.
There are 555, ,121 children of school
age in Wisconsin, between four and
twenty-one, and there were enrolled
332,327. Total number of teachers en-
ployod in 1886, 11,O4S.
Two large camps of Chippewa and
Pottewotomi Indians have encamped at
the head of lola pond for the purpose of
fishing and trapping. There are forty or
fifty of each tribe.
Frank Guernsey owns a piece of land
near ClIntoHville, on which a large vein
of magnets ore has just been found.
The Chicago Brass company has put in
nearly all its machinery in the shops at
Kenosha, and expects to be in operation
next week.
Diphtheria in its most malignant form
is said to be prevalent at Rice Lake. The
schools are all closed, and the quarantine
has been resorted to in order to check the
disease.
The register of marriages, deaths and
births shows that during the year 1856
there were 451 marriages, Oil births and
176 deaths in La Crosse county, against
corresponding showing of 357 mar
riages, 737 births and 128 deaths during
the year 1885.
Franklin Nye, father of the well known
humorist, Bill Nye, died of congestion of
the lungs at his house in River Falls,
aged SO years. His wife and four sons,
Edgar, William, +. NJ. and Carroll A., sur
vive him.
The railroads of the state seem to be
greatly disappointed in the amount of
travel st. Paul-ward, to attend the great
ice carnival. The rush is over for the
opening and the number from this direc-
tion is less than expected.
During the past season ,414,772 pounds
of fish were caught in the Bayfield, dis
trict that returned S4O,927 %. The fish
ing outfits are valued at SS5, ,43O, and the
business employed about $50 men. The
catch was 69S,000 pounds short of tl.at
of the previous wear